Eduard Batliner

Eduard Batliner (born August 15, 1899; died October 13, 1989) was a Liechtensteiner banker.

Life

Eduard Batliner was born in 1899, the son of Emil Batliner and his wife Emilie and grew up in Mauren. From 1920 to 1926, he worked at the Anglo-Austrian Bank in Innsbruck. He then spent two years working at a bank in Liechtenstein. In 1925, he married Maria Thaler († 1982), an Austrian citizen[1]. The couple had two sons (Herbert and Heinz) and two daughters (Hedi and Ilse).

Bank director and other roles

After the savings bank scandal led to the dissolution of the Landtag (parliament) and brought the Progressive Citizens' Party, of which Batliner was a member, to power, Batliner became the new director of the Savings and Loan Bank of the Principality of Liechtenstein (now the Liechtensteinische Landesbank) on September 15, 1928.

As bank director, Batliner dealt with the repercussions of the *Sparkassa* (savings bank) scandal as well as the Rhine breach of 1927, the New York stock market crash of October 29, 1929, and global economic crisis. Batliner transformed the small savings bank in Liechtenstein into an international financial entity.

From 1941 to 1943, he served together with Max Held on the board of directors of Press- und Stanzwerk AG (Presta), a Liechtenstein industrial company associated with the Swiss arms business of Emil Bührle.

Batliner also administered other companies, including Omniprint AG and Mero AG.

Honors

In 1958, Prince Franz Josef II awarded him the title of "Princely Commercial Councilor" (*Fürstlicher Kommerzienrat*) for his services to the national bank. For his contributions to the sport of bobsleigh, he was awarded the honorary pin of the international bobsleigh federation by Prince Albert of Monaco in 1986, during the 39th Bobsleigh World Championships in Königssee.

Literature

References

  1. 1 2 Archived (Date missing) at europainstitut.co.at (Error: unknown archive URL)
  2. ↑ "Held, Max – Historisches Lexikon". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (in German). Retrieved 2026-11-04.
  3. ↑ Whiteside, R. M.; Wilson, A.; Blackburn, S.; Hörnig, S. E.; Wilson, C. P. (1993), Whiteside, R. M.; Wilson, A.; Blackburn, S.; Hörnig, S. E. (eds.), "Medium Companies of LIECHTENSTEIN", Medium Companies of Europe 1993/94: Medium Companies of Western Europe Outside the European Community, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 111–113, doi:10.1007/978-94-011-1456-1_3, ISBN 978-94-011-1456-1, retrieved 2026-11-04{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  4. ↑ "Maurice Arnold de Forest versucht, die Alliierten bezüglich der Presta zu beschwichtigen". www.e-archiv.li. Retrieved 2026-11-04.
  5. ↑ "Die USA drohen mit Konsequenzen für den Fall, dass Eduard Batliner nicht aus dem Verwaltungsrat der Presta zurücktritt". www.e-archiv.li. Retrieved 2026-11-04.
  6. ↑ "Bührle Züri Ost – Teil 3 – Ostschweizer Kulturmagazin Saiten". www.saiten.ch (in Swiss High German). 2022-02-06. Retrieved 2026-11-04.
  7. ↑ Zürich, Lehrstuhl Prof Dr Matthieu Leimgruber Universität (2021-03-22). Kriegsgeschäfte, Kapital und Kunsthaus: Die Entstehung der Sammlung Emil Bührle im historischen Kontext (in German). buch & netz. ISBN 978-3-03805-384-2.

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